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An animal of the barnacle tribe, of the genus Lepas, having a fleshy stem or peduncle; a goose barnacle. See Cirripedia.

A carbuncle.

e sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.

Of or pertaining to an uncle. In these rare instances, the law of pedigree, whether direct or avuncular, gives way. I. Taylor.

A class of Molluscoidea having a symmetrical bivalve shell, often attached by a fleshy peduncle.

Belonging to a carbuncle; resembling a carbuncle; red; inflamed.

Of, pertaining to, or like, a caruncle; furnished with caruncles.

Having a caruncle or caruncles; caruncular.

According to rites and ceremonies; as, a person ceremonially unclean.

Carbuncle. [Written also Charboncle.] [Obs.] Chaucer.

The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.

lly related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.

thing. Standing waters are most unwholesome, . . . full of mites,creepers; slimy, muddy, unclean. Burton.

To make ceremonially unclean; to pollute. That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile therewith. Lev. xxii. 8.

or state of being defiled, whether physically or morally; pollution; foulness; dirtiness; uncleanness. Defilements of the flesh. Hopkins. The chaste can not rake into such filth without danger of defilement. Addison.

The power or government of demons. A demonocracy of unclean spirits. H. Taylor.

stance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt. Whose waters cast up mire and dirt. Is. lvii. 20.

anchiopoda, having a disklike shell, attached by one valve, which is perforated by the peduncle.

r separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse. All world's glory is but dross unclean. Spenser. At the devil's booth are all things sold, Each ounce of dross coats its ounce of gold. Lowell.

Uncle. [Obs.] Spenser.